How to change user.home for websphere liberty - websphere

I am trying to create a liberty cluster. While generating the keys, liberty is creating some keys under logged-in user's home directory which is c:\users\xyz\ .ssh.
How do I say liberty to save the keys under d:\users\xyz\ .ssh?
I need this because, i am working in citrix environment and c drive image is always replaced upon restart and I am loosing the keys forcing me to create the cluster again or save a copy of the keys before I log out for day.

Did you try displaying options for registerHost action like this:
D:\Liberty\wlp\bin>collective.bat help registerHost
it shows rpcUserHome param, which might be what you are looking for:
--rpcUserHome=path
Optional. The home directory for the user with which to authenticate
to the RPC mechanism. Defaults to the current OS user home directory.
This value is used when generating SSH keys.

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Windows account password hash location

I have a machine which I want to find where my password hash is stored.
the set command returns details about the account and shows that it is connected to a domain however it doesn't show in net user. As well as this on advanced system settings -> User profiles the account shows as type: local and Status: local.
It seems to be a domain user however windows doesn't think it's on a domain.
Because of this searching for hashes has only brought up dead ends. They aren't in the SAM file and they aren't in SECURITY. I also tried password recovery software and the account simply didn't show.
I could see the correct hash through sekurlsa::LogonPasswords full - specifically serkurlsa::msv with mimikatz but now I would like to know where they are stored.
I know they are cached somewhere as I can login without internet, so I think I'm specifically looking for this file.
A brief search of the command suggests they are in the SAM database but I know they aren't.
Any assistance would be appreciated.

What user profile the system uses when runs a service in windows

All,
I have no idea how Windows service works, just curious when we register a windows service(such as auto run a server after reboot), if it requires a user profile to load info(such as pulling data from somewhere else), what user profile does it load?
Thanks,
You can select what user run each service registered and the system comes with users assigned per service. The most used by the system is SYSTEM.
To check this you have to:
Go to services.
Right click on the desired service and properties.
Go to the Log on tab and check.
If the Local System account is selected the username is SYSTEM which has special permissions on almost all folder and Windows sections including users' profiles data.
By the other hand if you would like to do something special with an specific account you can tell the system the service will start with the account specified. Just make sure to update the password information every time the user change it.
Regards,
Luis

How to create .rdp file on Mac OS that allows auto-login

I'm working on a tool that generates .rdp files and then invokes them using Microsoft RDP Client. This tool is running on Mac OS.
Everything works well, the only problem is that I can't figure out of how I can generate 'password 51:b' field properly. On Windows this can be done easily by using CryptProtectData method from Crypt32.dll library. How can I do the same on Mac.
Another option could be to use "rdp://" URL scheme, but it doesn't seem allow to pass password this way.
So the question is how can I implement auto-login on Mac if I use third-party RDP client.
As far as i know you can't. You can however create a "User Account" and a Server configuration and add both to the client. The connection will then be visible on the main window and you just need to double click it.
To do so, you need to add the password to the Keychain, use /usr/bin/security to do so from a script. It needs to be a generic-password and saved in com.microsoft.rdc.macos. Also be sure to generate an ID according to the RDP Clients scheme, like BFF77777-7777-7777-7777-777777777777.
You may also set the permissions to read that key using /usr/bin/security and set-generic-password-partition-list specifying the right teamid (UBF8T346G9) and again com.microsoft.rdc.macos. You need the admin password to do this step.
Then you can alter the RDP Clients config file, which is a .sqlite file located at /Users/$(whoami)/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.rdc.macos/Data/Library/Application Support/com.microsoft.rdc.macos/com.microsoft.rdc.application-data.sqlite. Add the user configuration in the ZCREDENTIALENTITY table and make sure the ZID matches the one added to the keychain.
To add a server configuration you need to alter the ZBOOKMARKENTITY table. Just add a configuration by hand using the UI and look at the table to get a feeling of how it needs to be setup. Basically you link your user configuration with the server configuratio by making sure that ZCREDENTIAL in ZBOOKMARKENTITY matches Z_PK in ZCREDENTIALENTITY of your user configuration.
I know the answer is a bit late, but it may give you a starting point. This will however not fully automate the process, you will still need to go to the UI and double click the connection you want to use.

Apache 2 on Mac - localhost requires authentication

I'm using Apache 2 to run my localhost on Mac (Mavericks), and every time I add a file or a folder in the default directory /Library/WebServer/Documents (and its subdirectories) the system asks me to authenticate:
This is a problem specially when using frameworks like Symfony or Zend Framework because they can't have writing access to folders. What can I do to solve this?
Mac/Linux grants access on different levels:
Per user
Per group
Per everybody
The folder Library/WebServer/Documents outside of the logged-in user paradigm (you) therefore write access (and other access like execute) is only granted to the administrator of the computer (or so-called root) which isn't you however on most Mac environment the password of root is your password (different users with the same password).
You will want to modify Apache2 configuration and change the directory to a folder located within your user's directory which is something like /Users/{whatever is your username} (you will probably need to create the folder).
Once, you moved the content of /Library/WebServer/Documents into the new folder, make sure the permission are set properly. Refer to the following documentation at the chapter "How to Modify Permissions with the Info Window".
The reason why your Mac is asking for permissions to write files outside of your user's directory is for security reasons. Imagine if you download a file, execute it and grant access (by giving the root password) then the file could potentially be a virus and erase or do all kind of things on your computer.

What is my Eclipse-RCP application storing in $HOME/.eclipse, and how do I prevent it?

When I run my Eclipse RCP application, it creates a whole lot of directories in my $HOME/.eclipse directory. What is this?
I don't want the files there, how can I hinder them from getting there? The rational for this: the application must run very clean and only leave files at one specific location (not $HOME/.eclipse).
I'd figured it was controlled by osgi.instance.area so tried to set this to different values (a directory, #none, #noDfault etc...) but can't stop the application from creating directories in $HOME/.eclipse. -data and other arguments works as expected.
On my system the only thing that is stored in .eclipse is the Equinox Secure Storage. Here is the blurb on the doc page for that:
By default, secure storage is located in your home directory. On Windows that typically resolves to "C:\Documents and Settings\.eclipse\org.eclipse.equinox.security". This location is selected to allow multiple Eclipse-based applications to share the same secure storage.
If you would like to modify the location of the default secure storage, you can use the "-eclipse.keyring " runtime option. The is a path to the file which is used to persist the secure storage data.
Here is the online reference.

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